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PM Joins Defamation Suit Hearing Online
- In 2024, Pat Morton, spouse of Quesnel’s Mayor Ron Paull, initiated a defamation suit against a city councillor and the Union of BC Indian Chiefs due to their criticism related to a book she distributed that challenges accepted accounts of residential school history.
- The lawsuit arose after community outrage sparked by Morton distributing several copies of the book 'Grave Errors,' which challenges certain facts about residential schools, prompting a formal condemnation sent to the Quesnel council by the Union of BC Indian Chiefs in early April 2024.
- At council meetings on March 19 and April 2, 2024, Indigenous chiefs and elders spoke about the harm caused by the book, while Roodenburg criticized Morton's conduct and repeatedly interrupted her, escalating tensions.
- Morton stated that as a result of Roodenburg's actions and the UBCIC letter, she experienced exclusion from the community, a decline in clients for her son's tax office, emotional suffering, and concerns for her personal safety, emphasizing that the letter inaccurately accused her of promoting denialism.
- Morton seeks general and punitive damages, special costs, formal apologies, and injunctions against Roodenburg and the UBCIC, while both defendants have yet to respond to her filings as Paull successfully challenged his council sanction in court.
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